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Creative Writing


Publications

 

2016

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  • 'How Dry Are His Lips that Water Floods him in Nightmares', Poets in the News​, October.

  • 'Azan, or The Call to Prayer, or Resistir es rezar que arrasamos el orden de arrancamiento, or When the Sky Opens and I am Swallowed'; 'Little Birds'; and 'The ache on the tongue of the grieving', Acentos Review. 

  • 'Homes, All Home, All Wretched and Succulent Soil', Kin Issue, HOLD, (forthcoming.)

  • 'When the Machete Will Sever the Ballad', Pank.

  • 'Old Cowboy', Huizache, Issue 6, Fall 2016.

  • 'Helix/Womb/House', poem, Feminist Studies Journal, Everyday Militarism issue, Summer 2016.

  • Poet of the Week Feature Interview, Brooklyn Poets, March 21-27, 2016.

  • 'Home is Not', Where it Begins', and 'Relentless Procession', Pariahs Anthology, SFA Press, March 2016.

  • ‘Missionary’, poem, Veils, Halos, and Shackles: International Poetry on the Abuse and Oppression of Women, Spring 2016.

  • 'Onomasticon (I.) (Or, I Sing the Names of Our Dead)', Quick Lightning, January 2016.

  • 'Til the Taste of Free in Our Mouths (Brown Baby Lullaby)', Split This Rock Poem of the Week, January 1, 2016.

  • 'The Heresy in Our Bones' and 'Beast, Lost', in Crabfat QPOC Issue, January 2016.

  • 'For the Love of Marimonda' and 'And They Said Never Trust a Mermaid', Jota Anthology, Korima Press (forthcoming.)

  • Kitchen Herbalism and Accessibility, non-fiction, From the Ground Up Zine, (forthcoming.)

 

 

2015

 

 

  • 'The Other Side', poem, Writing Down the Walls: A Convergence of LGBTQ Voices,  Anthology, Trans-Genre Press, November 2015.

  • 'Of Scar, Palimpsest', creative non-fiction, Scar Anthology, Et Alia Press, November 2015.

  • 'Imbunche', poem, Kudzu House Review, Summer 2015.

  • 'Between Worlds' and 'Without Papers', poems, Voices for Equity and Diversity in Education: A Literary Anthology, Spring 2015.

  • 'Prayer for the Children with Today's Daggers in their Tomorrow Eyes,' poem, Decomp Magazine, May 2015.

  • 'Swans, Once' and 'The Dream in which We Die Together,' poems, Connotation Press, Spring 2015.

  • ‘Your Hair, Defiant Tree’, creative non-fiction, EDUCE Literary Journal, Issue 6, February 2015.

  • 'For the Boy who went to War and Came Back Fire, Came Back Song', poem, Word Riot, February 2015.

 

2014

 

 

  • 'Lamentation for a Broken Constellation', poem, We Will Be Shelter: Poems for Survival, An Anthology, Write Bloody Publishing, December 2014.

  • 'On beautiful nights when', 'O Beloved Queers', 'The Flower Husband', Whether We Were', 'Cultivated', 'This is Not Envy', 'Invitation', 'Full Belly          Ghazal', poems, Adrienne, Sibling Rivalry Press, October 2014.

  • 'And They Said Never Trust a Mermaid: Siren Song for Femmes', poem, As/Us: Decolonial Love Issue, October 2014.

  • 'What She Could Carry', poem, Matter Monthly, October 2014.

  • 'Being threatened with corrective rape while sitting next to my queer lover on the 4 train', poem, RiverSedge, U. Texas-Panamerican, October 2014.

  • 'Rise', poem, Poems for the Queer Revolution, An Anthology, October 2014.

  • 'Cryptologies, Survival, or the Secret Passage of Letters', and 'With these words I address you from the mouth of an owl', poems, Raspa Magazine, (Fall/Winter 2014.)

  • 'Bulowstrasse 57', poem, Descant, Berlin issue, (September 2014.)

  • 'The Terror of Clean', poem, Nepantla: A Journal for Queer Poets of Color, September 2014.

  • ‘Papaya No More’, poem, The Progressive, September 2014.

  • 'Purgatory', poem, Heavy Feather Review, Baby Eat Books, Summer 2014.

  • 'Non-Combat Related Incidents and Other Lies', poem, Literature of War: At Home and Abroad, Scintilla Press, Issue 6, June 2014.

  • 'Thread', Fiction, New Tales of Madness, New Lit Salon Press, June 2014.

  • 'All That is Left', poem, honorable mention, Colorism Poetry Contest, Colorism Healing, June 2014. 

  • 'Homes, All Home and Wretched and Succulent Soil', prose, Passage and Place Anthology, Passage and Place & Deviant Type Press, National Queer Arts Festival,  June 2014.

  • 'Queer Prophecy as an Occult of the Present', creative non-fiction, Queer Prophecies, National Queer Arts Festival, June 2014.

  • 'True Madness', text and art broadside, Breaking Code (exhibition), National Queer Arts Festival, June 2014.

  • 'Rai, Love', poem, Mobius , Vol. 25, No. 5, June 2014.

  • Chapbook Review: Breaking Up with Los Angeles, by Raquel Gutiérrez, Lambda Literary Review, May 2014.

  • 'The Blood of La Mojana', poem, Yellow Medicine Review, Spring 2014.

  • 'What the Bird Has Seen', poem, University of San Diego Library National Poetry Month Blog, April 2014.

  • ‘On the Question of Your Grandfather’, creative non-fiction, Blue Lyra Review, January 2014.

 

2013

  • ‘Rise’, poem, Codex, Queer People of Color issue, December 2013.

  • ‘Uncle B and Me’, poem, Wilde, December 2013.

  • ‘rise and fall’, poem, A Jar of Queer Feelings, Queer Owl Publications, Fall 2013.

  • ‘Take a Bow Racism: Theatre and the Finale of My Self Hatred’, essay, Art School is Hell Zine, edited by Nia King, November 2013.

  •  ‘The Revolutionary’s Living Room’, Penny Fiction piece, in Stories from Home, From the Depths, Haunted Waters Press, Fall 2013 issue.

  • ‘Ode to Our Survival in this Great Wide World’, essay, On Struggling Zine, Issue #3, Brown and Proud Press, August 2013.

  •  ‘Missionary’, poem and essay, Mixed Up! A Mixed Race Queer and Feminist Zine, 2013.

  • 'Maladies of Empire', Prose and Photo Essay (exhibited), SICK Collective show, LGBT Center, San Francisco, May 2013.

  • Revolutionary Love Letter, Queer Women of Color Media Wire, February 2013.

  • Interview with Queer Punk Artist Cristy C. Road, Autostraddle, January 2013.

 

2012 and before

  • 'Missionary', poem (exhibited and invited to read), Movement of Queer Diaspora Art Exhibition, Multicultural Community Center, U.C. Berkeley, October 2012

  • You Are Not Alone: A Resource Guide and Poetry Zine for Sexual Violence Survivors, Editor.  Published in conjunction with City College San Francisco Women’s Studies Department, Spring 2006.

  • Upon the Great Wide World, unpublished manuscript, 2005.

  • Venus Rising, (Poetry Chapbooks, Living in the Document, No. 3), Chapbook, edited by Thomas Lowe Taylor, Anabasis Press, 2000.

  • ‘Autumn Sauce’, poem, co-written with Lewish LaCook, Cling, Anabasis Press, 2000; and Debilitating Sugar: Selected Poems 1997-2000, Idiolect Electronic Editions, 2001.

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